By 2015, the site was still using both railways, and in fact had extended the use of the 600mm gauge line right into the main yard to dump the clay in a newly built shed. Here the loaded train on the 500mm gauge line is due to leave for the drying sheds, and in the background the Plymouth and skips can just be seen under the shed.
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The 600mm gauge extension into the yard had been laid alongside the 500mm gauge line. The only place in France to see 2 loco worked narrow gauge lines of different gauges side by side. Sadly only a couple of years after these photos were taken, the use of the 600mm gauge line was stopped by 2017. A tractor and trailer being employed to transport clay from the pit. The 600mm gauge continues to be worked for a short time to deliver clay from the stockpile to the brick forming machines.
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Here the small Lilliput loco heads out to the drying sheds to pick up a loaded rake of dried bricks ready for firing in the kiln, crossing the 600mm gauge tracks as it does so.
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